By training your eyes and brain to read in a specific manner, speedreading allows you to read very quickly with good comprehension. It does so by training your eyes and brain to read sentences at a time instead of words. Its main proponent is Evelyn Wood who have developed a number of courses so that you may learn this method of reading. You will find speedreading of great assistance to you if your work requires that you read lots of documents.
Learning to speed read can take a lot of effort and is not something that comes naturally. The way that you do so is to read groups of words at a time, rather than individual words. When you have mastered this technique, you then go on to read whole sentences and after that whole papragraphs. It is no use reading and not understanding and remembering what you have read, so you train your brain to retain the important gist of the article you are reading. Obviously speed reading cannot be learned by those who do not first have a good normal reading ability. Poor readers should not even comtemplate learning to speed read.
You can see that should you be in a profession where a great deal of informatiion has to be read, understood and assimilated, this skill will rapidly shorten the amount of time you spend reading documents and this could easily lead you advancement in your chosen career.
Even if you are only reading for enjoyment, many would say that speed reading can improve that enjoyment by permitting you to read more in the available time. I cannot really accept that suggestion. If you read for enjoyment, then you want to enjoy the finer nuances of the language used. Understanding the finer nuances of the language would seem to rule out speedreading in this case. Whilst you would understand the general concept and meaning of the piece of writing you are reading you will not appreciate the flow of the words. When reading classics such as Charles Dickens and William shakespear, this is especially true. In other cases, it is the words themselves that are important as much as the storyline. Once you have learned speed reading, it is difficult to read in any other way.
Please consider carefully your reasons, before embarking on a speedreading course. Before you take that leap you should gather as much information as you can (by reading normally. Make sure that you really will benefit from speed reading and that it won’t take away your enjoyment of reading.
If you are convinved after this then go ahead and start a online speedreading course. Good luck.
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